An edited version of this article was first published in The Express Tribune on May 6, 2014, Islamabad – Those who drink the water must also pay for its quality. It is this simple logic which is likely to cause another delay in an already delayed project to further improve the quality of drinking water […]

An edited version of this article was first published in The Express Tribune on May 4, 2014. Islamabad – Saturday’s public hearing on the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report of the Metro Bus project’s Islamabad section might have been a case of “too little, too late” to protect against any potential environmental and economic harm […]

An edited version of this article was first published in The Express Tribune on Mar 17, 2o14. Islamabad – For years, it has been obvious to residents, environmental activists and even government officials that sections of the Margalla Hills have been bruised and battered beyond recognition by limestone quarrying and urban development. But perhaps for […]

An edited version of this article was first published in The Express Tribune on Mar 13, 2014. Islamabad – Pakistanis are only second to the Chinese in seven Asian countries in terms of the most actions taken by communities and individuals to respond to climate change, according to a new comprehensive study on climate change […]

An edited version of this article was first published in The Express Tribune on Mar 11, 2014. There might be no hope that things will ever change. But there is a possibility. There is definitely a possibility. The likelihood, however far removed from reality, that one day we will be able to clean our filth […]

An edited version of this article was first published in The Express Tribune on Mar 11, 2014. The Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration and Capital Development Authority (CDA), with support from the Punjab government, have once again promised to rid the Margalla Hills National Park (MHNP) of stone crushing units “very soon.” But there is […]

An edited version of this article was first published in The Express Tribune on Mar 11, 2014. Islamabad – Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed has written to the Supreme Court to take suo moto notice of a proposal that might destroy green belts on two Islamabad avenues to make way for the planned metro bus service. […]

An edited version of this article was first published in The Express Tribune on Mar 3, 2014. Islamabad – Recycling and waste-to-energy projects are two possible solutions for the gargantuan solid waste management crisis in the twin cities, according to environmentalists and experts. Rawalpindi and Islamabad are trying to contain problems related to solid waste […]

An edited version of this article was first published in The Express Tribune on Feb 20, 2014. Islamabad – It was in the icy desolation of Antarctica that Pakistan’s star mountaineer Samina Baig said she found her favourite moment of the “Seven Summits expedition,” which she and her brother, fellow mountaineer Mirza Ali Baig, are […]

An edited version of this article was first published in The Express Tribune on Feb 11, 2014. Islamabad/Rawalpindi – Hung between two electricity poles, it was a regular, innocuous-looking banner made of white fabric, outside the south boundary wall of the Fatima Jinnah Women University at Katchery Chowk in Rawalpindi. On it were printed several […]